Gathering calls for congressional horse slaughter ban A New Hampshire boy toting more than 1,000 letters from other children joined representatives from three equine welfare advocacy groups and a Virginia Congressman in Washington, D.C., this week to urge federal lawmakers to ban the processing of horses for human consumption.

Bloomberg: How the U.S. became banker to the power-war worldThe system developed at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944, fixed exchange rates to a dollar backed by gold. It worked successfully for years. But it couldn't last forever.

Four firms bid for NH private prison contract The four bidding companies are just a fraction of the 20 or so that initially expressed interest in the state's request for proposal to build a prison that will hold 1,500 inmates who are currently held in the state-owned facility in Concord.

Difficult to predict what an antique lover will want to buyThe dwindling numbers of shoppers are due to more than just a bad economy. "The antique generations are dying out," Pearson said, "and most young people have no interest in them." Dealers are having to buy at lower prices because they have to sell at lower prices.

The Dartmouth pans Picoult's latest Fans of bestselling author and Hanover resident Jodi Picoult will relish racing through the pages of the author's latest book, "Lone Wolf," but they also might find themselves underwhelmed by the plotline.